This is one of several posts to help your early readers be successful and develop a love of books. For all of the strategies, as well as recommendations for picture books, easy readers, and chapter books, download the whole presentation, Resources for Beginning Readers, or pick up a printed copy in the Kids’ Area at the Library.
Beginning Readers: Chapter Books
Beginning chapter books are great to share — read these books aloud to your Kindergartener and when they are ready to move beyond beginning readers these are also good first books to try!
- Mercy Watson (Series) by Kate DiCamillo
- Magic Tree House (Series) by Mary Pope Osborne
- Princess in Black (Series) by Shannon Hale
- Frog and Toad (Series) by Arnold Lobel
- My Father’s Dragon (Series) by Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Dory Fantasamagory (Series) by Abby Hanlon
- Flat Stanley (Series) by Jeff Brown
- Rainbow Fairies (Series) by Daisy Meadows
- A to Z Mysteries (Series) by Rob Roy
- Chicken Squad (Series) by Doreen Cronin
Kung Pow Chicken (Series) by Cyndi Marko- Pigsticks and Harold by Alex Milway
- Junie b. Jones (Series) by Barbara Park
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- Toys Go Out (Series) by Emily Jenkins